Handbook of Global Technology Policy

The Handbook of Global Technology Policy presents and compares nonideological resolutions to environmental pollution and toxic waste, urbanization and transportation, homelessness, health-care policies around the world. It provides an evaluation of industrial interventions and energy sources, explores flow control and corporate growth, privatization and liberalization, health data networks, and electronic innovation and governance. Other topics include pharmaceutical policies, the state of science and technology in Africa, the reemergence of tuberculosis, wind energy technology development and diffusion in Inner Mongolia, and major problems of policy implementation in India

Technology policy - an introductionUrbanization in Ghana (1960-1984)Evaluating contribution of mineral export flows to development - case of the Democratic Republic of CongoAn evaluation of planning effectiveness in Zairian transportThe state of science and technology in Africa - deficiencies, challenges and prospects for the 21st centuryPublic opinion on the environment in Japan and KoreaState environmentalism and environmental policy in the People's Republic of ChinaWind energy technology development and diffusion - a case study of Inner Mongolia, ChinaMultiple systems, multiple reforms - South Asian health policies in comparative perspectiveIndia's environmental policy - major problems of policy implementation in a developing countryPrivatization and liberalization - prospects of information technology market in IndiaCulturally appropriate health service in Australia and New ZealandEcological awareness of Russian intelligentsia in St. Petersburg - some empirical findings and theoretical considerationsReforming health policy in Finland - a critical assessmentThe impact of sustainable development on Dutch environmental policy implementationHealth data network - organizational and political challengesEnvironmental policies in the Nordic countriesEconomism and ecological resistance - pioneer efforts at the local level in SwedenElectronic innovation and governance - whither the information age?Corporatism and lobbyism in Norwegian environmental policy-makingPluralism, inequity and governance -health care reform dilemmas in Latin AmericaPublic management challenges in the reemergence of TB - old lessons for new problemsThe politics of trash - flow control and corporate growthIssues in pharmaceutical policy - a comparison of Canada and the United States.